I see many have problems after download Vista. My XP works great - but I am curious also and want to see how it works. Is there anyone who can say it works perfect without problems??
Can I use it seperately without deleting XP. ?? Can I use it with all feautures when I install it on D instead of C who normally is the place where it should be installed. ??
2006-08-17 20:38:14 · 4 answers · asked by try.myanmar 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Just partition your hard drive and install it on the new partition (parition magic works pretty well), there you go dual boot with XP and Vista..
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Heh, download VMWare and install it as a virtual machine just to check her out, can delete it easily and requires no partitioning.
I have beta two and no it's not worth it in my opinion just wait until the release in Jan.
And for the idiot posting above me... it's not 50 gigs..
Read the requirements...
2006-08-17 20:44:07 · answer #1 · answered by ruthless 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait a while until Microsoft releases RC1 (=Release Candidate 1) of Windows Vista to the public. It is going to be much better than the previously released public beta 2. Being a technical beta tester who has used the builds released after beta 2 I can assure you that they're working hard on reducing the resource usage.
You can safely install it onto your D: drive; your XP installation will not be harmed. You will have to choose between the two Windows versions whenever you boot though.
Regarding the resource usage someone cited: Vista itself uses about 7 GBytes of hard drive space, and 300 MBytes of RAM by itself. It does need more resources than XP, true, but not the outrageous amounts certain people think it will need.
2006-08-18 06:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by Frank 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there has been many problems for some when downloading the vista beta 2 from microsoft when you burn it on to a cd your need to make a back up of your windows xp and all your files coz when you install windows vista beta it will clean your hard drive out and then your need to install the drivers if you dont have windows xp and your drivers on cd dont download windows vista beta i seen on Q&A someone say when they burn it on to cd then try to install it .it got to 16% then came to a stop they could not get back to windows xp and had to format the hard drive and start over with windows xp
2006-08-18 03:58:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard the real version is going ot be 50GB!!! thats insane. if the beta is like 1/10 of it then yah. but vista is crazy dude. its gunna be 50gb!!!!! ahhh. crazynes.s no wonder computers getting duo core and extreme duo core. and like trio core soon probably lol
2006-08-18 03:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by dsfsdg d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋